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Another Stone in the Wall: Landscape and Power in the Roman Dalmatian Hinterland

Landscape is basically a set of meaningful locations in which people live their lives. Everything around us is meaningfully situated in the very experience of life and social practice. Therefore, landscape in not only about abstract space and environment, it is experiential, social, political, emotional etc. Landscape is a medium through which humans practice and negotiate social relations, manipulate physical environment and profoundly influences action (David and Thomas 2008). Depending on where we are, people go about their daily business in a defined manner. The experience of life is necessarily spatial and entrenched in localities. The social structure is embedded in and embodied, in locations, actions, seasons, jobs, everyday life and special occasions - a taskscape. The very stuff of human society is inextricably linked to spatiality with an innate social dimension (Ingold 1993). Movement is a crucial moment in the construction of meaningful places. Places acquire meaning inasmuch we construe them as narratives of movement from one place to another (Tilley 1994). Sometimes, some states make it their business to define the very framework people live in. The logic of government commands that the state creates knowledge, categorizations, and even physical circumstances in order to control and administrate the population (Foucault 1991). The state is involved in the lives of its subjects to such an extent as to define the very frame of reference for them. This is especially painful when one frame of reference is radically changed for another, like in colonial circumstances. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate these issues using a case study of boundary walls from Roman imperial era in Dalmatian hinterland.

Dalmatian hinterland ; boundaries ; landscape ; power ; governmentality

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